The OECD describes its mission as to "promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world" and "provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems".

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And we will, as promised, continue to press day in and day out Congress to act on these common-sense solutions to the problems we face right now economically, the need to get growth going, the need to get jobs creation moving.

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